Home Improvement Contractor - Licensed Contractors

How do you become a general contractor or an Engineering Contractor?

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1. Get an engineering degree and intern with a company. Then get an entry level job. Work for about ten years and get some experience and make yourself desirable to engineering companies. If you can, take the Professional Engineer Licensing exam (it is REALLY easy!!!! You just need to study the question format). Once you have made yourself nigh irresistible to the engineering companies, then ask your boss if you can switch to being a contractor (and he'll most likely let you because then they don't have to pay for health insurance). Join a contractor's association for insurance and networking. Then apply as a contractor for other engineering jobs. Get a different job for more money (contractors make more money) and switch over to it. You are now a good contractor that actually has work. Hope this helps. and I hope you meant the math engineering, and not construction. ;-)